2008 Articles

The author of The Tangled Neuron blog interviews Dr. Joseph Friedman of LBDA's Scientific Advisory Council and Angela Taylor of LBDA's Board of Directors in an effort to untagle the differencese between Lewy body dementias and Alzheimer's.

A recent study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry indicated that parkinsonian syndromes often are misdiagnosed, and that it may take over a year to identify the true underlying cause for Parkinson's like symptoms.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a method to reduce the production of alpha-synuclein in the brain. Alpha-synuclein is the protein which misfolds and creates Lewy bodies in the brains of people with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease.

In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease interact to form unique complexes.